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Fuck this and if you use it shame on you.
The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · yesterday“The product would allow paying subscribers to use AI to create their own versions of popular songs, such as transforming a folk song into a dance track or making one artist appear to cover another’s music.”
2/3 of his concerns boil down to "The Dems might increase the representation of marginalized people and give them a voice in the government that controls their lives." I think it's telling that he instinctively sees that as a threat.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3d agoElon Musk — who has spent at least $450 million on the midterms — shares his closing argument.
At this point, I don't care how it looks. I'm BEGGING, if you need any covers or album art or anything done in November, please get in touch with me. lanelloyd.crevado.com 📧 lane.lloyd8@gmail.com Rate: $150-600 per cover Turn around: about a week
There WILL BE less people like Patrick Stewart or Dolly Parton, given widening wealth inequality, loss of jobs in creative sector, austerity, privatisation of education (especially arts) & financial exclusion. Art of the near future will be less diverse & restricted to the privileged few.
Asinus Pervicax@knownagitator.lol · 4d agoPatrick Stewart's passing feels a whole hell of a lot like Dolly's. It's hard to imagine that singular talents found in people born in the working class or working poor will get fostered the ways theirs were. The things that nurtured those talents have been stripped for profit by assholes.
Hey Etsy, I love how you tried to placate artists by implementing new changes and then quietly added bullshit to your ToS, which I highlighted below. After this month, I will be moving my shop. F*ck off.
"Calling AI a tool is like calling arsenic a flavour." Sometimes you come across great quotes in the wild.
Aw dang what a shame for them www.wired.com/story/massiv...
Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
wired.com
We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage
Put the typewriters and the letterpress and the looms in the hands of young people. ❤️🔥 #DHmakes
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · last wk.I'm reading the most beautiful student papers right now (written by 18-20 year olds) about the beauty of typewriters; the value of slowness, of difficulty; about how genuine learning takes place, all unprompted by me! or, only prompted by my unbridled enthusiasm for analog tech 😍 we are not doomed!
Next time you feel imposter syndrome creeping in just remember Mark Zuckerberg continues to make billions of dollars off a completely unusable slop pit and oh wait now I've got imposter syndrome AND I'm aggravated jk nevermind disregard.
The gulf in my emotions that exists between A) seeing the care, passion, and artistry present in Laika's Wildwood and B) reading about a former Yahoo exec giving an interview admitting to asking AI what made her own daughter special... is absolutely irreconcilable.
If you feel like you are being lied to by the tech bros, it's because you are being lied to.
Social media offers the facsimile of community and connection but seals off the individual in physical space if care is not taken to prevent social media from subsuming all other social activity. How can I be in community when I stand here alone at my own table?
Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."
Friendly reminder that Mothman is Anti AI and we are too!
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Generative AI can only plagiarize and steal. If you use this technology, you are telling the world that you are fine with stealing and cheating. This is why everyone hates you.
Jails are irredeemably terrible and they shouldn't exist. They are dangerous and violent. The people who run them don't like them.
Shani 🫧🧙🏽♀️@mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 2w ago
Don’t know how to say it other than, creatives are currently enduring an Era of Punishment from rich people who just despise people with functioning brains.
The AAA industry continues on its path towards becoming SSS: sports, sequels, and shooters. And some of those games are good, sure. But when they're all that remains in the big-budget space, it's no wonder most of the interesting work these days is being created by indie studios.
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!
Weird seeing things like “Elon ordered the starlink slowdown” being put out there as breaking news. Yeah man, we figured the dude who has turned himself into what is essentially the dumbest fucking Bond villain did it. It’s nice to have the confirmation I guess.
"Record profits!" Your workers have not gotten over a 2% raise in 2 years, meaning we have lost money as workers. Record profits is wage theft.
It's looking like fall is here for better or worse. Love the colors, not so much the weather. I get through the gloom by working on personal projects. Think I'll redouble my efforts on my paintings. What sorta stuff are you gonna work on this fall/winter? #illustration #fall #art #spookyseason
Insurance companies as a rule should not have profits. They should pay out all doctor ordered claims and either keep the funds on hold for future claims or return that extra money to the people who pay their premiums. Profit should not even enter the picture.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 3w agoUnitedHealth Group tops estimates, hikes profit outlook as insurer manages high medical costs
And that’s why everyone needs to stop complaining about indie journalists trying to launch something and asking you for 5 damn dollars This is the alternative
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w agoRight-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.
"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC
Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish
